"When I try to sleep, war memories come to my mind and my body starts shaking," a 62-year-old man told Human Rights Watch researchers eight years after surviving a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2011. "Everything gets dark and I lose consciousness." His trauma is the trauma of many.
It's unsurprising that the global prevalence of mental health conditions in conflict-affected populations is as <...
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Adriana Masgras is the disability rights coordinator for Human Rights Watch.